1916 Commencement Program for Boynton High School at Eastport, Maine

Reprinted, with permission, from the Heirlooms Reunited blog.

1916 Commencement Exercises for Boynton High School at Eastport, Maine, held at the Baptist Church at two o'clock.

The Boynton High School building was designed by Gridley James Fox Bryant in 1847.  In 1917, Boynton High School was closed and replaced by a new building, renamed Shead Memorial High School.  Since that time the Boynton High School building has been used by various businesses and organizations, including several decades as the home of Eastport City Hall.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

• Processional, Mrs. Nicholas
• Prayer, Rev. Albert E. Berrie (1875-1937)
• Music, "Somewhere"; "Gaily the Echoes Ring", Boynton High School Chorus
• Salutatory, "At Washington", Rena Blanche Turner
• History, "Notes from my Diary", Gladys Lewis Warnock
• Essay, "A Model City", Lucy Helen Colwell
• Prophecy, "In 1925", Avis Belle Loring
• Music, "Whispering Hope", "Barcarolle", Boynton High School Chorus
• Mathematical Demonstration, Clifford Merrill Bishop; John Henderson McCart
• Presentation of Gifts, John Clarence Muldoon
• Valedictory, "Colonial versus Modern Education", Mary Virginia Chevrier
• Presentation of the Holmes Scholarship and English Composition Medals, Mayor Fred T. Eldridge (1871-1927)
• Address, Samuel A. Elliott, D.D., L.L.D.
• Presentation of Diplomas, Mr. Herbert H. Kilby 
• Class Ode
• Benediction
• Recessional

Class of 1916

College Preparatory Course

• Lucie Kilby Atwood - Lucy Kilby Atwood (1898-1996), who married Ronald Bibber Wadsworth
• Amy Catherine Bogle - Amy Catherine Bogle (1898-1975), who married Marcus Theodore Rangas
• John Clarence Muldoon - John Clarence Muldoon (1896-1951)
• Alice Gordon Rome - Alice Gordon Rome (1898-1990), who married Cleveland H. Kennedy
• William Henry Smith - William Henry Smith (1897-), son of William T. Smith and Alice (Whelpley) Smith
• Rena Blanche Turner - Rena Blanche (Turner) Jewers (1896-1982), who married Karl Wilfrid Jewers
• Gladys Lewis Warnock - Gladys Lewis Warnock (1897-1975), who married Ralph S. Hayes

Commercial Course

• Jeanette Morrison Boyd - Jeannete Morrison Boyd (1897-1989), who married Albert H. Winchell
• Lucy Helen Colwell - Lucy Helen Colwell (1898-1965), who married 1) Frank A. Marchant
• Arthur Stanley Gregory - Arthur Stanley Gregory (1897-1978)
• Avis Belle Loring - Avis Bell Loring (1897-1976), who married John Archibald MacMillan
• Vera Leland - Vera Leland (1897-1958), who married 1) Arthur Leroy Sadler and 2) William Franklin Davidson
• Ashton Morton Mabee - Ashton Morton Mabee (1897-1972)
• Donald Whitney Silver - Donald Whitney Silver (1896-), who married Alice Loring Wilson

English Course

• Clifford Merrill Bishop - Clifford Merrill Bishop (1897-1964) or Merrill Clifford Bishop (1897-1964)
• Mary Virginia Chevrier - Mary Virginia Chevrier (1897-1988), who married Francis L. Gallen
• Genevieve Winifred Healy - Genevieve Winifred Healy (1896-1972)
• Ralph Alexander Harrington - Ralph Alexander Harrington (1896-1986)
• Gerald Cushing Harrington - Gerald Cushing Harrington (1898-1970)
• Arthur Cameron Hilyard - Arthur Cameron Hilyard (1897-1971)
• John Henderson McCart - John Henderson McCart (1897-1949)

Class Officers
President, John Clarence Muldoon
Vice-President, Lucie Kilby Atwood - Lucy Kilby Atwood (1898-1996), who married Ronald Bibber Wadsworth
Secretary, Arthur Cameron Hilyard
Treasurer, Gladys Lewis Warnock - Gladys Lewis Warnock (1897-1975), who married Ralph S. Hayes

Faculty
Jennie A. Grindle, Principal
Helen N. Hanson
Arthur A. St. Onge
Harley H. Sawyer